Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights: The Role of Multilateral Organisations

by Mcneill; Desmond

• ISBN13: 9780415445948
• ISBN10: 0415445949
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-03-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Examines the activities of the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme, in relation to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Author Biography

Desmond McNeill is Research Professor, and former Director, at SUM (Centre for Development and the Environment), University of Oslo, Norway. Asuncin Lera St. Clair is Associate Professor and Scientific Director of the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP-ISSC), University of Bergen, Norway.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
International organisations and the challenge of global poverty	p. 10
Ethics, human rights and global justice	p. 30
UNDP: the human development paradigm	p. 63
The World Bank: the internal dynamics of a complex organisation	p. 91
Unesco: 'poverty as a violation of human rights'	p. 113
The Inter-American Development Bank: 'social capital, ethics and development'	p. 133
Conclusion	p. 152
Notes	p. 155
Bibliography	p. 169
Index	p. 183
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